Secularists Gone Wild

oboma voters: How does it feel to have taken an active role in the destruction of the greatest nation that ever existed?

Don't know, I'll ask a Bush voter.
 
The deliciously ironic thing about this is the Charles M. Schulz, once a member of the fundamentalist Church of God, who at one time in his younger years preached on street corners, and who fought tooth and nail to get A Charlie Brown Christmas on TV, including the reading from the Gospel According to Luke ("If we don't tell them, who will?"), had by the 1980s become a self-described secular humanist. (See Shulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis (2008) His adult children informed biographer Michaelis that their father never instructed them on religious matters.
 
Austin:

Please explain to me what President Bush did?

As has been pointed and disproved on post after post you have no ******* clue as to what Presdient Bush did or did not do.

Again, please tell me what he did to destroy this country?
 
Check the Wiki on the church putting this on. I'm not a secularist, however, after reading the Wiki and checking the links, there's no way that I would be okay with my kid's public school sending the kids to an event put on by this church.
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CedarPark - Nope, it is Merry Christmas Charlie Brown, "A Musical Theatre Adaptation by Agape Church" according to their website. It is not a screening of the "Charlie Brown Christmas" show that we all grew up watching (and that I must admit I still enjoy watching each year!).
 
Nope. My kid would not be ne a bus heading for a mosque. I quote from the article:

"The Little Rock School District said students were not required to attend the performance and as far as the district is concerned – there is no controversy."

Doesn't seem to be compulsary to me. However, I bet if they did take them to a mosque for a performance they'd label it as a lesson in diversity or multiculturalism.
 
Issues such as these are where I part with the more conservative posters. Many conservatives would like more religion in public schools but fail to realize that it may not be their version of religion. What if the shoe was on the other foot? I can't wait to see how well the Laylat al-qadr scene in the Ramadan play would go over. Want prayer in school? Why settle for one? Five time a day facing Mecca sounds quite nice.
 
And trust me, people would throw a fit if students were taken to a mosque to perform a Muslim play even if it was only by parent approval. National news story guaranteed.
 
It makes me sad that so bright a fellow calls me an idiot.

Minority rights does not necessarily mean racial minority. I thought college types would know that one of the distinctions of our republic was protection from the majority.

The dismissal of an interest as just being "one guy" as though that doesn't matter is somewhat against the values we boast about to the world, is it not?

If anything is idiotic in this thread, it's the notion that it's okay to bus school kids to a church for a religious performance so long as attending is not compulsory.

Suggesting that that position may not be so willingly held if the church were a mosque (or any other minority religion let alone possibly radical religion) and not Christian seems more obvious than idiotic to me.

I guess I misjudged the idiocy around here. I feel like such a fool.

Happy holidays.
 
Unfunded Medicare Prescription drug plan, two off the books wars all the while cutting revenue in giving huge tax cuts. During whose term did the financial free fall begin?

OK, on that last one, presidents don't deserve all the credit or blame for economic cycles. Many, many parties involved in that. I just put it out there because the rightys blame Obama for our financial woes.
 
[quoteThe dismissal of an interest as just being "one guy" as though that doesn't matter is somewhat against the values we boast about to the world, is it not?

If anything is idiotic in this thread, it's the notion that it's okay to bus school kids to a church for a religious performance so long as attending is not compulsory.
 
I think this boils down to: is the content of the play religious? I have no problem with taking kids into a religious building of any sort for a non-religious play. Wiki claims that this is part of the tv show. Is it part of the play as well?

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As a strong conservative and an actively practicing Baptist, my opinion is that this is clearly an inappropriate activity for a school. I don't want a school teaching my kid, or any kid, religious topics or deciding which religious activities are available for them to attend.

There are a lot of other things I didn't want schools teaching my kids, which is why we homeschooled them.
 
The devil is in the details and we dont know what version they are seeing. If it is more of a giving and caring type of message, I have no problem with it.
 
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